Degree

BS (Social Sciences & Liberal Arts)

Faculty / School

School of Economics and Social Sciences (SESS)

Department

Department of Social Sciences & Liberal Arts

Date of Award

Spring 2024

Date of Submission

2024-09-10

Advisor

Dr. Abdul Haque Chang, Assistant Professor, Department of Social Sciences

Committee

Dr. Hafeez Jamali, Government of Balochistan

Project Type

SSLA Culminating Experience

Access Type

Restricted Access

Keywords

Subaltern resistance, Haq do Tehreek Gwadar, Ethno-Nationalistic resistance, Postcolonial state, Postcolonialism

Abstract

Unprecedented protests in Gwadar have shocked the established power nexus of entire region and the government apparatuses. The subaltern has risen with a purpose to speak, however, their speech within the dominant narratives cannot be comprehended or does not exist. With the state control getting increased overarchingly in politics and culture, the local frameworks and socio-political norms gets contested. Consequently, they have evolved by adopting various forms of resistance rooted in their cultural values and principles but with an inspiration from modern democratic politics. With a critical discourse analysis and a historical analysis of the colonial and the postcolonial past of Gwadar, this paper demonstrates how the postcolonial state apparatuses has subalternised these groups. But on the other hand, the nationalist politics, which came in resistance to the state apparatuses contributes to the subalterisation of these groups because of their embedded colonial assumptions and way of resistance. Subsequently, the subaltern voices get unheard and uncomprehend, resulting in new forms of subaltern resistance taking shapes in these regions. Taking an interpretative approach this paper investigates the social movement and the dynamic voices of subaltern to seeking out the ground elements of the subalternisation of the people of Gwadar. It calls for a decoloniality of the state’s approach towards governance, development, and its attitude towards the direct stakeholders that are the subaltern living in the region.

Pages

32

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